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Patented Aug. 20, 189-5.

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PATENT GEORGE O. ROGERS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOHENRY R. HAMLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

SOAP-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,024, dated August20, 1 895.

Application filed April 27, 1895- Serlal No. 547. (No 11105819 T aZZwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. Rodnns, of

the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri;

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Soap-Holders, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to a device designed to be attached to avessel-such as a bucketfor the purpose of holding cakes of soap, thedevice being especially useful when employed in connection with thewater-bucket of floorscrubbers; and my invention consists in features ofnovelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I illustrates a bucket with one of my improved soap-holderssecured thereon. Fig. II illustrates a detail top view of the holder asillustrated in Fig. I. Figs. III and 1V illustrate,respectively, sideand top views of the holderin reverse position from that shown in Figs.I and II. Fig. V illustrates the brush-holder.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the vessel to which the holdersare shown attached.

2 designates a block provided at one of its sides with prongs or pins 3,and at the opposite side with projections or staples 4, either one ofsaid sides being designed to receive and hold a cake of soap. The prongs3 are embedded into the soap by its being pressed upon them and the soapis held to the block by their means. The projections 4, at the oppositeside of the block, are arranged in a line around the margin of theblock, and the cake of soap rests upon the block within said line ofprojections. The block is secured to the 4o brim of the vessel 1 bymeans of ears 5, hinged at 6 in an angular position with reference tothe block, so that whichever side of the block signed to be connected tothe block 2 by insorting the ends 10 of the hooks through loops or eyes11 in the ends of the block.

The device is inexpensive, and can be readily connected to a vessel andas readily disconnected, and by its use the soap and brush may be alwayskept handy.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an improved soap holder, consisting of ablock, prongs projecting from one side of the block, and reversible earssecured to the block in an angular position, and by which the block maybe attached to a bucket or other object in inclined position,substantially as described.

2. In an improved soap holder, consisting of a block, prongs projectingfrom one side of the block, ears hinged to the block in an angularposition, so as to be reversed from one side to the other, substantiallyas described.

3. In an improved soap holder, a block, a reversible means forsupporting the block, prongs projecting from one side of the block bywhich a cake of soap may be held, and a marginal row of projectionsextending from the other side of the block, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE 0. ROGERS. WVitnesses:

J OHN W. KING, S. E. GREENWELL.

